Reviews

The Gown: A Novel of the Royal Wedding

Months before Meghan Markle, the future Duchess of Sussex, walked down the aisle at St. George’s Chapel, finally revealing her Givenchy wedding gown, British bookies twice halted their betting pools over which couturier had received ... Read More »

December 20, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

The Goddess of Yantai

By Ian Hamilton

When the first Ava Lee novel was published in 2011, it introduced a character who was fresh and atypical: a lesbian Chinese-Canadian forensic accountant and martial arts master who dresses in Brooks Brothers suits and ... Read More »

December 17, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Fate: The Lost Decades of Uncle Chow Tung

By Ian Hamilton

December 17, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

You Don’t Know Me, But You Love Me: The Lives of Dick Miller

By Caelum Vatnsdal

The maxim that there are no small parts, only small actors gets inverted wonderfully in Caelum Vatnsdal’s You Don’t Know Me, But You Love Me. This voluminous appreciation of the American character actor Dick Miller ... Read More »

December 13, 2018 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

Northern Wildflower: A Memoir

By Catherine Lafferty

Reading Catherine Lafferty’s memoir Northern Wildflower, I kept wondering if my responses to it made me a morally reprehensible human being, a Donald Trump of the reviewing world. How can a story of growing up ... Read More »

December 13, 2018 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

Angela of the Stones

By Amanda Hale

Every now and then, a short story appears that manages, through the author’s sheer craft, to compress all the emotional and narrative heft of a novel into 15 or 20 pages. Alice Munro has built ... Read More »

December 13, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

Tread and Other Stories

By Barry Dempster

December 13, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

Raise You on the River: Essays and Encounters 1964–2018

By Barry Callaghan

Barry Callaghan holds a position in the Canadian literary firmament that is at once praiseworthy and unenviable. Callaghan wrested himself from the shadow of his father, CanLit icon Morley Callaghan, to create a varied career ... Read More »

December 10, 2018 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Reviews

All the Lonely People: Collected Stories

By Barry Callaghan

December 10, 2018 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Fiction: Short, Reviews

Amateurs at Love

By Patricia Young

Ruba’iyat for the Time of Apricots is the third book of poetry from writer and artist Basma Kavanagh. “Ruba’iyat” refers to a grouping of “ruba’i” – poems in a classical Persian four-line form not unlike ... Read More »

December 10, 2018 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

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